Hi.  How can I change my home directory?  Currently it is
    C:\Documents and Settings\snaran
But I want it to be
    D:\Documents and Settings\snaran

I have recently bought Win XP as my machine was loaded with a bogus copy.
My machine no says 'This machine requires activating' and then logs off
whenever I start it, in safe mode or in normal.
It will get to a logon screen, and it seems to get to desktop but then

I have Windows XP Professional installed on two different partitions.
Is there a way to use a Virtual Machine (either vmware or Virtual PC)
to load the OS on the second partition while booted into the OS on the
first partition?

I'm wondering if it's possible to, while performing an unattended
installation over the network of Windows XP Pro, to reformat the target
machine at the same time?
I need to reformat and reinstall around 60 machines that do not have CD-ROM

When installing XP the following happens:
- i choose to install XP
- i format C: drive
- setup copies files

(Dell dimension 2400. Xp Home).... My local computer repair shop
replaced the hard drive and power supply. They ghosted the old drive on
the new. All was working  for a couple of weeks with the exception of
some display drivers missing .The utility program I downloaded from

When I installed Win XP Pro on my wife's computer at home, I setup an
account for her and it worked great.. no prompting for password.  Now
though it does.  How can I set it to never prompt her for password,
just turn it on and she's logged in, and if it goes into standby mode

Hi all, I posted the below about a week ago and 2 very helpful people tried
to help (their responses are below), however after trying their solutions it
still freezes on the install at the exact same place.  If anyone has any
ideas on what I can try now I would be most thankful, ...

Can anyone give me an answer, I am trying to upgrade 98SE OEM to XP Pro using
the upgrade version, when it starts to do a compatabilty check about 5
seconds in I get an error message,  Fatal Error, Setup cannot continue,
contact microsoft tech support error 5FBFF5Ch.  Phoning ...

Planning for a future OS reinstall.
In the past, I have downloaded all required hot fixes and manually installed them one by one prior to running windows update.
1) I realize that I could slipstream the patches, but prefer not to
What I would like to do is run windows update - have ...

I seem to have lost my HP Windows XP CD and when I use another Windows XP CD
and try to enter in the Windows XP CD Key located on the HP computer,
Windows XP reports back that the CD Key is invalid.
Any way around this problem, other than phoning HP and getting a replacement

I have a new Compaq V5119US laptop with an AMD Turion64 processor. It came
with XP home but I would like to upgrade to XP pro.
I have the XP SP1 media and the SP2 cdrom so I did an integration as
outlined in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894947/ to C:\XPCD then I ran

Well hello, I will need a little help from you guys out there.
I used to have Windows XP Pro but when day It stopped working so I decided to
install a new Windows XP Home that I bought. After doing all the installing
work I figure out how to fix my Windows XP Pro and now I want to ...

I have Windows XP SP2 preloaded on my machine and I am wondering if there is
a way for me to confirm that I have activated my windows license with
Microsoft.
Thanks

I've just posted about "installing windows from external drive" but since
then I've found this "disc cloning" topic.
Since I have several PC with exactly the same hardware and software (I guess
the only difference is the network name and ip) I think this is the perfect